MUDDY WATERS: FOLK SINGER - MONO (CHESS RECORDS ACOUSTIC SOUNDS SERIES)
Vinyl
Code: 17445764
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Performer: Muddy Waters, vocals and guitar; Willie Dixon, bass; Buddy Guy, guitar
Composer: Muddy Waters
Number of records: 1
Barcode: 0602488332415
Label: Analogue Productions
Format: LP
Genre: Blues & Soul
Year: 2026
180-gram LP
Unmissable mono reissue of Muddy Waters’ album Folk Singer
Part of the Chess Records 75 Series, a phenomenal project by Chess Records and Acoustic Sounds
The only fully acoustic album ever recorded by Muddy Waters
Strictly all-analog remastering by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
In the history of blues recordings, few albums can claim the authority and lasting impact of Muddy Waters’ Folk Singer. Originally released in 1964 and presented here in this essential reissue in its pure and intimate mono version, Folk Singer is the only fully acoustic album ever recorded by Muddy Waters. The nine tracks on the program mark an emotional return to the Delta atmosphere that helped shape Waters’ artistic identity, giving life to what many enthusiasts and professionals still consider the first—and arguably unsurpassed—concept album in blues history.
Concerned by the seemingly unstoppable rise of folk music, which they feared might draw listeners away from the blues, the executives at Chess Records sent Muddy Waters into the studio to record a fully acoustic session, with revealing results. Joined by Willie Dixon and a then-young Buddy Guy, Waters delivers a strictly unplugged performance that remains one of the most captivating crossover masterpieces in the genre’s history.
This new reissue has been remastered using strictly analog technology from the original mono tapes by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab and pressed on 180-gram audiophile vinyl at Quality Record Pressings.
Muddy Waters, vocals and guitar; Willie Dixon, double bass; Buddy Guy, guitar
Side A
My Home Is In The Delta
Long Distance
My Captain
Good Morning School Girl
You Gonna Need My Help
Side B
Cold Weather Blues
Big Leg Woman
Country Boy
Feel Like Going Home